Coyote Buttes South

Welcome to NPN. Nice color and detail. Looking forward to more posts.

- Dan.

Welcome to NPN! Certainly an auspicious beginning! A gorgeous landscape, but a bit over-sharpened for my taste.

I like the textures, colors and comp. The sky is beautiful and you handled the exposure between the sky and ground wonderfully.

Is this a blend of two exposures?

Hi Gino! Welcome to NPN!

This is a very nice first post. The color and detail are captured very well. Nice cloud interest too.

A beautiful location. I never get over the tangerine color of the rocks in this area. Also a nice wide view that I don't recall seeing either.

Chris

Welcome to NPN. Gorgeous colours here. The blue sky contrasts with the warm coloured rocks well. There seems to be some haloing at the junction of rock and sky on the right so providing some more technical details about the exposure and processing will help.

Great scene! My only problem is that the top left holds a lot more interest than the bottom right, so in that respect its a little unbalanced. Looking forward to seeing more shots from this area...

I like the elements and the contrasting colors here. It feels a bit too processed (yeah, yeah, know, who am I to say something like that?) If I had to pin it down, the rocks feel just a bit too yellow maybe.

I like your composition, and you can't go wrong with the contrast between red rock/blue sky. It seems a little oversharpened to my eye. Welcome to NPN

Welcome! This is quite a vista. I like the lines which lead me through the photo. A bit over-sharpened for my tastes and the blend has left a halo aroung the rocks where they meet the sky.

Gino,

Welcome to NPN and the ES&S Gallery! GReat to have you here and we look forward to more images and your participation.

I think this is a wonderful landscape from the American Southwest. I like the composition including the subtle curve in the landscape that seems to separate the foreground with the midground in a diagonal. With that I think the comp is very strong.

I will have to agree and pick up with some of the other comments about the processing. I agree with Tony that the color seems a little strong in the yellow/red saturation causing a fairly strong orange saturation. Actually it's not too far off, but enough for me to comment. Also agree about haloing where rock meets sky.

I think some additional work with this image and you will certainly have a winner. We'll look forward to more posts.

Lon

Thanks everyone for your constructive comments. I'll reduce the sharpening, clean up the halos, and remove the orange color cast. I'm a sucker for bold colors and sometimes that saturation slider just can't be moved far enough to the right! Thanks again, and Happy Thanksgiving!

O.K. What about this version? Perhaps somewhere in the middle?

Gino, this an excellent first post overall. The composition works as is and of course these types of southwestern landscapes have a lot to offer.
On the review and critique side I might just clone out or crop off the very tiny object jetting in on the URHC where the landmass hits the sky area. Obviously no big deal at all, but would be an easy fix too.
I find the second post better IMO. I might try for a middle balance between the two images as you also pointed out in the second post as a suggestion. I would not push too much over the second though, it looks better to me at this point. In your adjusting keep an eye on the clouds, almost looks like the detail is starting to washout a bit there from the first post. Again, a very nice first post overall, and welcome to NPN.